Amazon Sells Anorexia Sweatshirt and the Internet Is Not Happy About It

It's insensitive and dangerous.

Amazon is selling a sweatshirt called the “Anorexia Styling Hoody for Women” and the internet has totally exploded over it. The pullover is sold by a company called ArturoBuch and is still in-stock on Amazon’s website though why, we don’t understand.

Not only does the sweatshirt say anorexia across the chest, which would be bad enough, but it further reads like a parody of a dictionary definition, “Anorexia (an-uh-rek-see-uh) Like Bulimia, except with self control.” Wait, what? There are few products we could imagine that are quite as horrible as this one. It’s so bad, in fact, that when we first came across the product, we thought for a moment that our eyes must be deceiving us. Unfortunately, they were not.

There are currently 66 reviews of the product on the website. Nearly all of which rate it with one star, with caveats that say they would have rated it with zero stars, had Amazon allowed them to do so and still write a comment. One comment states, “It is disgusting to be selling a fashion item like this. All eating disorders are mental illnesses and can kill. This seems to promote anorexia as being something to aspire to.” Another shares, “Unbelievable—this is very offensive. Every 62 minutes someone dies from an eating disorder. Please remove this item.” And so it continues, though to no avail, as the product is still live on the website.

Not only is a sweatshirt like this insensitive, but it’s also dangerous. Especially in a day and age in which the discussion surrounding body image and body positivity is so often at the forefront of discussion, it’s mind-blowing to think that a company like Amazon could do blindly promote a product such as this.